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Trubetskoy, Prince, 63
Trubetskoy, Prince Sergei, 213, 219
Trump, Donald, 484
Tsarskoe Selo: building of, 51;
Elizabeth inherits from Catherine 1, 94; Rasrrelli redesigns, 104–5, 105, 106–7; Catherine II’s alterations and gardens, 149, 150–2, 153, 176; Cameron Gallery, 150–1, 150; lyceum built at, 201; Egyptian Gates added, 206; in twentieth century, 307, 308; in Soviet era, 412; in twenty-first century, 468
Tukhachevsky, Marshal, 380, 400, 408
Turgenev, Ivan, 265, 272, 274, 291
Turks: Peter I’s relations with, 14, 38–9; Anna’s relations with, 103; Elizabeth’s relations with, 110; Catherine II’s relations with, 153, Г62, 166, 175
Tuvulkov, Vasily, 52
Twelve Colleges, 61–2, 63
typhoid, 334, 422
typhus, 270, 334–5
typography, 390
Ulanova, Galina, 404–5, 414–5, 417
Ulyanov, Alexander Ilyich, 290
Union of Russian People, 323
Union of Youth, 340–1
The Unusual Adventures of Mr West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (film), 392
Ural Bashkirs, 32
Uritsky, Moisei, 368, 375
USA: American tourists in St Petersburg, 278; Alexander II sells Alaska to, 280; US Embassy relief efforts in First World War, 350; Ballets Russes tour, 351; and Russian Civil War, 374; Russian love of US popular culture during Second World War, 427; Khrushchev visits, 444–5
Ushakov, Andrei, 99
Vaganova Ballet School, 440, 451, 462
Valberg, Ivan, 210
Varentsov (architect), 390–1
variolation, 167–8
Vasilchikov, General, 314, 315–16
Vasilevsky Island, 208; Menshikov’s palace on, 35–6; plans for building on 45; under Anna, 85; theatre established, 113; St Catherine’s Lutheran Church built, 154; port for galleys, 197; sphinxes on quay, 206; Stock Exchange built, 207; violence in wake of cholera outbreak, 246; transport in mid-nineteenth century, 258; factories built, 270; slum landlords, 344; in twenty-first century, 482
Vasnetsov, Viktor, 289, 345
Vauban, Marquis de, 30
Vedomosti (newspaper), 82
Veira, Anton de, 57
venereal disease, 168–9, 197, 268, 288, 335–6
Venetsianov, Aleksei, 235
Venice, 181, 226
Verdi, Giuseppe, 259
Versailles, 49, 52–3
Viardot, Pauline, 291
Viazemsky, Princess, 89–90
Victory Over the Sun (theatre show), 340–1
Vigée-Lebrun, Elisabeth, 162
Vigel, Filipp, 212
village communes see obshchina
Villebois, François, 38
Vitebsk, 389, 390
Vitebsk Station, 305
Vitruvius, 50
Vladimir, Grand Duchess, 345
Vladimir, Grand Duke, 459
vodka see alcohol
Volkonskaya, Princess, 88
Volkonsky, Prince, 10
Volkov, Yakim, 37
Voltaire, 77, 141, 143, 152, 165
Volynsky, Artemy, 98
Voronezh, 24
Voronikhin, Andrei, 54, 199, 209
Vorontsov, Roman, 112, 119–20
Vorontsov Palace, 106
Vorontsova, Countess Elizabeth, 125
Vosnezensky Street, 95–6, 96
Voznesensky, Nicholai, 433–4
Vrouw Maria (ship), 158–9
Vrubel, Mikhail, 289, 303
Vyazemsky, Prince, 171
Vyborg Side, 271, 280, 314, 482
wages: in nineteenth-century building industry, 197; in twenty-first century, 482
Wagner, Richard, 261, 278, 292
Walker, James, 183
Walpole, Robert, 107, 161
Walter, Bruno, 393
Wanderers (peredvizhniki) art movement, 273–4
Warsaw, 287–8
Washington DC, 45; National Gallery of Art, 403
watchmen, 129–30, 164
water, drinking, 166–7
We Grow from Iron (play), 381
wealth: eighteenth-century poverty, 92; under Elizabeth, 103–4, 107–9; poverty in St Petersburg under Catherine II, 163–4; poverty in nineteenth-century St Petersburg, 128–30, 257–8, 270; poverty in early twentieth century, 344; inequality continues in immediate aftermath of 1917 Revolution, 369; Soviet inequality, 379, 396, 397–8, 419–20, 431–2, 452–3; post-glasnost misappropriation of state assets, 463–5; property developers, 472–3
weather see climate
Webb, John, 237
Weber, Carl Maria von, 239
Weber, Friedrich: on St Petersburg, 40, 61; on Russian court, 41, 53; on tsar’s tap-house, 47; on banya, 56; on casualties among St Petersburg’s builders, 69
Wedgwood, Josiah, 152–3, 161
Wells, H.G., 378–9
Werefkin, Marianne von, 340
Western Rapid Diameter bridge system, 480
Weyde, Marshal, 59
white goods, 450
White Nights, 1
Whitworth, Charles, 39, 182–3
Wilhelm II, Kaiser of Germany, 308, 349
Wilhelmina of Bayreuth, Markgravine, 51
Wilkes, John, 161
William III, King of Great Britain and Ireland, 17, 19, 21
Wilmot, Catherine, 192
Wilmot, Martha, 194–5, 100
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 148
Winter Palace, 208, 238, 239; building and refurbishment of first, 73; Peter I dies in, 67; refurbished for Anna, 81; building of third, 85; building of present-day, 104–5, 113; Large Hermitage added, 155; Small Hermitage added, 156–7; robbery at, 164; cellars flooded, 165; balls and other entertainments at, 192–3, 245, 300–1; plot to seize during coup against Nicholas I, 214; fire and restoration under Nicholas I, 236–9, 237; Narodnaya Volya bombs, 277; Christmas Eve rituals, 295; interior redecoration under Nicholas II, 307; possible attempt on his life at, 312–13; First Duma proclaimed at, 324; Alexandra sets up hospital during First World War, 350; and 1917 Revolution, 5–6, 357, 362; pillaging in wake of Revolution, 368; film screenings for workers, 372; becomes part of Hermitage, 372; fur auction, 406; hit by German shell in Second World War, 426; repairs after war, 431; see also Hermitage
Winter War (1939–41), 409
Witte, Sergei, 289–90, 304
Wittgenstein, Count Peter, 203–4
Wolff & Béranger café, 232
Wolkonsky, Princess, 370, 373, 379
wolves, 46
women: status in eighteenth-century Russia, 55, 56; nineteenth-century improvements in condition, 165–6, 272; involvement in revolutionary activities, 272–3; 1870 revolutionary manifesto addressing, 281; early twentieth-century growth in crimes against, 333; early twentieth-century education, 334; Russian Society for the Protection of Women, 335; education in Soviet era, 394; rights and status in Soviet era, 394–6, 446, 450 -, glasnost brings some improvements, 455
Women’s Bureau see Zhenotdel
The World of Art see Mir Istkusstva
World War I see First World War
World War II see Second World War
Wonzel, Pieter van, 160, 177
Wood, Henry, 425
workhouses, 164
Wraxall, Nathaniel, 170
Xenia, St, of St Petersburg, 114–15
Yaguzhinsky, Pavel, 67, 71
Yaguzhinsky, Sergei, 112
Yakovlev, Savva, 131
Yakovlev, Vladimir, 462
Yakushkin, Ivan, 219
Yelagin Island, 179
Yeltsin, Boris, 458
Yesenin, Sergei, 388
youth culture, 435, 441–2, 448–9, 453–4
Young Russia (pamphlet), 263–4
Yudenich, General, 377–8
Yusupov, Prince, 113
Yusupov, Prince Felix, 353, 358
Yusupov, Prince Nikolay, 181
Yusupov Mansion, 353<
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Yusupov Palace, 156, 407, 431
Zaandam, 9, 14–15, 180
Zagriazky, General Artemy, 114
Zakharov, Andreyan, 198–9, 209
Zamyatin, Eugene, 389
Zasulich, Vera, 275, 276, 352, 362
zemstvo, 261
Zemtsov, Mikhail, 61–2, 95–6, 105–6
Zenit Arena, 481
Zenit football team, 429
Zhdanov, Andrei, 398–9, 433, 434
Zhelyabov, Andrei, 283
Zhenotdel (Women’s Bureau), 394–5
Zinoviev, Grigory, 330, 371, 379, 383, 398, 433
Zinoviev, Lilina, 377
Znamenskaya Square massacre (1917), 355
Zoshchenko, Mikhail, 433
Zotov, Nikita, 43, 64
Zubatov, Sergei, 311
Zubov, Nicholas, 189
Zubov, Platon, 189
Zucchi, Virginia, 293–4
Zurich, 341
Zvenigora (film), 392
Zvezda (journal), 433
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Cultural historian Jonathan Miles has a personal engagement with St Petersburg and its people that dates back to the Soviet era. Born in a trunk, Jonathan has been travelling ever since and currently lives in Paris. Having taken a first from University College, London, he received his doctorate from Jesus College, Oxford. Early books include studies of British artists Eric Gill and David Jones. Most recently, Medusa: The Shipwreck, the Scandal and the Masterpiece, a voyage through the artistic, political and moral clashes of Restoration France, and The Nine Lives of Otto Katz, the tale of a flamboyant Soviet spy, were both published to international acclaim.
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